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Saturday, December 1, 2012

Surname Saturday ~ Bullard of Watertown, Massachusetts

BULLARD

George Bullard became a freeman in Watertown,
Massachusetts on 13 May 1641. His land
was next door to a Robert Bullard, his brother. His
mother was Grace Bignett who died about 1629 in England and names her children
in her will. The names of her four sons
disappear from English records about the same time they appear in New
England. George and Robert Bullard lived in Watertown, and William settled in Dedham, and John in Medfield, Massachusetts. This is a case where the myth "four brothers came to America" really is true!

George’s first wife Margaret died in Watertown at
the same time as the birth of a daughter named Mary. He married second to “Beatrice Hall, now wife
of one George Bullard of Watertown” who was dismissed from the church of Boston
to Watertown on 17 November 1644. He had
four children with Beatrice. He married
third to the widow Mary Marplehead.

My descent from the Bullards daughters out in the
first generations, when Sarah Bullard (1645 – 1722) married John Ball of
Watertown and they had nine children.

For more information on the Bullard’s of Watertown
see the New England Historic Genealogical Society Register, Volume 154, page 172 – 188, “The English Bullard Family
Revisited and their Bignett Connection” by Clifford Stott and Myrtle Steves
Hyde. There is a mention in Henry Bond’s
Genealogies
of Watertown, page 147. There
is also a book Bullard and Allied Families, by Edgar J. Bullard, 1930.

My Bullard Genealogy:

Generation 1:
George Bullard, son of William Bullard and Grace Bignett, born about 1607 in Barnham, Suffolk, England,
died 14 January 1699 in Watertown, Massachusetts; married first to Margaret,
married second to Beatrice Hall about 1640; married third to Mary Marplehead on
30 April 1655 in Watertown.

Generation 2:
Sarah Bullard, born 1645, died 8 May 1722 in Watertown; married on 17
August 1665 to John Ball, son of John Ball and Elizabeth Peirce, born 1644 at
Watertown, died 8 May 1722. Nine
children.

1 comment:

I'm in awe of all your historical/genealogical information. I've heard it's easier to find in New England, but this is amazing. In our family we have a legend that "three brothers came to America," but there the legend ends. They were Irish, or English, or Scots, or Welsh. They were prisoners or they were buyers of land. We just follow the names we can latch onto, starting late 1700s. Someday I'll beat my head against a few more brick walls!

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Author of the Nutfield Genealogy blog and occasional genealogy speaker. My family research includes Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine, with a smattering of Nova Scotia. Please contact me if you see your ancestors on this blog. I would love to share information. I am the former secretary of the New Hampshire Mayflower Society, former President of the Londonderry Historical Society, member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Mass. Society of Genealogists, The National Genealogical Society, and the New Hampshire Society of Genealogists.